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Small parties of Boers are surrendering to the British in all quarters. Major-General Grenfell, in the Transvaal, has taken a nnmber more prisoners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →J. Bills, a returned South African soldier, speaking at an unemployed meeting at the Queen's statue yeiterday afternoon, said the New South Wales Government had owed him…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Major De Moulin's column, after scouring the district south-east of Orange River, has brought to Aliwal North, Cape Colony, 30 prieoners,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Details received of the plucky stand mad' at Warra Baths by under 30 British troops against an overwhelming nnmber of Boers state that a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cologne Gazette reports that a sanguinary battle has been fought between the Russians and Chinese near Monkden, in Manchuria. The Russians…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The British Government will probably be asked to send to Sonth Australia the Maxim gun which was recently captured by the South Australians under Lieutenant Reid,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is stated in a Cape Town telegram that Commandant Kruitzinger has recrossed the Orange River…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Major-General Grenfell one day this week attacked a Boer force at Bergplast. near Haekerstberg, facing the Boers' last " Long Tom." Fire was opened by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE effect of war upon the trade of Natal has been marked. It has, of course, stimulated the imports, but last year it cut down the exports…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Of the first moiety of the war loan Rothschild and Sons were allotted £11,000,000, J. S. Morgan and Co., £10,000,000, and the Bank of England…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The members of the second South Australian contingent who arrived in Australia by the Tongariro have been invited to remain in Melbourne for the Federal festivit[?]e[?], but…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IT seems probable that if the truth were always told war would soon become impossible or well-nigh so. It is lying that produces it, lying that supports it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR EDWARD CLARKE, K.C., exAttorney- General, speaking in London on March 27, said there had been differences between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farther details of the Nongeni Nek affair show that the 27 British commanded the highway, and the enemy's vanguard was expelled thence before…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Hon. St. John Brodrick, Secretary for War, stated in the Commons last night that owing to the prolongation of the war the allowance to the wives of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A number of piomineit Bo[?]r leaders and a big commando were strongly entrenched at Hartebee[?]te Fontein. Major-General Babington, after shelling…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reuter's correspondent at Tient[?]in reports that a German bridge over the Peiho River near the southern end of the British concession at Tientsin impedes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Kit[?]hener has telegraphed to the War Office that small parties of Boers are daily surrendering to the British…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The members of the second South Australian Contingent, most of whom returned to Adelaide on [?]aturday, were in 67 engage[?] men[?]s in South Africa, in addition to [?]couting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lord Kitchener informs the War Office that General De La Rey comm[?]nda 5000 Boers at Hartebeeste Fontein, and that Generals Babington,…
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